Associate Professor of History Dan Herman is an Arizona native who was educated in California (mostly) and who has since lived in places as far away as New Zealand. His teaching interests include the American Revolution, the early American republic, the Civil War, the American West, and American Indian history. He is author of Hunting and the American Imagination (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001) and is currently working on a second book, whose working title is Frontiers of the Tonto Rim: Indians, Settlers, and Zane Grey. Herman is a hiker (at least in the summer), an angler, a collector of rare books, and a fan of John Wayne, Laurie Anderson and anything that sounds Celtic.

Education

• Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1995
• B.A. Honours, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1988
• M.S., Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, 1985
• A.B., Pitzer College, Claremont, California, 1983

Fellowships, Awards, Honors

• Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year, CWU chapter, 2004-05
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2005
• CWU College of Arts and Humanities Faculty Scholarship/Artistic Achievement Award, 2003
• CWU College of Arts and Humanities Summer Scholarship/Creativity Grant, 2003
• American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund Grant, 2003
• AHA Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, 2002 (Hunting and the American Imagination)
• CWU Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2002
• Hunting and the American Imagination, History Book Club Selection, 2001
• CWU Seed Grant, Summer 2001
• Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1997
• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1994-95
• Distinction on PhD Qualifying Exam, May, 1992
• First-Class Honours (BA Honours Program), University of Canterbury, 1988
• Honors in History (AB), Pitzer College, Claremont, California, 1983

Publications/Current Projects

• Frontiers of the Tonto Rim: Indians, Settlers, and Zane Grey (in progress)
• "Whose Knocking? Spiritualism as Therapy and Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco," American Nineteenth-Century History, 7, no. 2 (summer 2006).
• "Hunting Democracy," Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 55, no. 3 (Autumn, 2005), 23-33.
• "The Hunter's Aim: The Cultural Politics of American Sport Hunters, 1880-1910," Journal of Leisure Research, 35, no. 4 (Fourth Quarter 2003), 455-475
• "Hunting for Empire: Lewis and Clark Claim a Continent for Science," Columbia, 17, no. 2 (Summer 2003), 24-30
• Hunting and the American Imagination (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)
• "Romance on the Middle Ground" (essay on frontier historiography), Journal of the Early Republic, summer 1999
• "The Other Daniel Boone: The Nascence of a Middle-Class Hunter Hero, 1784-1860," Journal of the Early Republic, fall 1998
• "Science, Seance, and San Francisco," "Women Mediums and Women's Rights," and "Midnight Disclosures," The Californians: The Magazine of California History, spring 1994

Summer Seminars

• "The Redemptive West: Nationhood and Healing in the Post-Civil War American West," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, 2005
• "Border Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2002